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how do i find faulty, incompatible or wrong drivers and how to fix them?

Anonymous
2024-01-11T16:27:52+00:00

hi

I got a new sick pc, it hasnt even been 1 month so its my fault, not pc's

i was using it daily for my games and work, it was lightspeed everytime but then cuz im a perfectionist i tried to download the latest drivers for any driver in my pc.

Did from manufacturers websites, from win update, from msi center-live update, from a driver app for desktop i cant remember and a few from driveridentifier.com.

Which includes as i remember: a samsung driver to connect my phone because i couldnt connect anyway, some intel drivers, Nvidia high definiton audio, maybe a usb port driver? and realtek ethernet driver. I did all of this in 2 days

then from yesterday it became slow like anormal, files opening up late and loading takes much more, i mean u can feel the anormal slowness.

i gone into safe mode rn and its fast as before but i dont know how to fix the problem.

Btw i did sfc scan, dism scan and even if it did find some corrupt files it said it fixed but still same slowness

specs:

Windows11 home 23H... not activated

RTX3050

I3 12.GEN

8X2 16GB RAM

MSI H610... motherboard

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-11T18:27:08+00:00

    thank u so much for your answer, thats what i thought so

    im currently reinstalling drivers and will let u know if it fixes

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  2. DaveM121 871K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-01-11T17:08:22+00:00

    Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    Using a 3rd party driver updating utility or website will be the cause of the problems, they install incompatible and corrupt drivers, the only place you should ever install drivers form is the support page for your PC or Windows updates and MSI systems use many custom drivers for their high end products.

    It is not really possible to work out what driver(s) are causing the problem, the only thing you can do is to download and manually re-install a full set of drivers for the support page for your PC on the MSI website to try to overwrite the existing drivers, if that does not resolve the problems, a full clean install with a bootable USB will be the only option, a Windows reset will not solve this.

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  3. DaveM121 871K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-01-12T08:07:32+00:00

    Sorry, I was offline.

    If that process did not overwrite the corrupt drivers that were installed, really there is no other method to find the corrupt drivers, and honestly, I do thing re-installing will be your only option to stabilize your system.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-11T20:38:49+00:00

    unfortunately it didnt fix anything, I would appreciate any help except formatting/resetting

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  5. DaveM121 871K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-01-11T18:30:20+00:00

    I hope re-installing your drivers will resolve this for you.

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